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26 Mythbusting Moments Necessary Thanks To Movies

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

September 01, 2021

26 Mythbusting Moments Necessary Thanks To Movies

People frequently now want to believe in fairy tales that are simply untrue.

The Great Wall of China is the only man made object visible from space. Horns were on all Viking helmets. Cancer is caused by 5G. You get the picture.

Or women always have professional makeup and healthy hair, no matter how difficult their physical aspects are. When everyone comprehends the 'good guy's good intent, he can get away with torment, attempted kidnapping, killing, and massive destruction. Crimes are crimes in real life.

The central character lives in a large, costly, and immaculately decorated mansion with their parents. There is no clutter. There is no chaos.

Movies frequently sensationalize to make banal everyday events more exciting to watch. That exercise is perfectly understandable; even so, many people unaware of those subjects may be led to believe that this is how situations work in real life. Here are such lies that you are likely to believe because of movies:

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YOU CAN'T BULLY PEOPLE INTO CONFESSING CRIMES IN A COURTROOM. The Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination exists to protect people against this kind of aggressive coercion. Try to lead someone down this path, and you'll get a huge objection. CRACKED.COM — 7 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About The Legal System

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CRACKED.COM Most cops never fire their guns. Research has found that only about 27% of police officers have ever pulled the trigger while on duty (with male officers, white officers, and war veterans more likely than other groups to do so). — Pew Research Center

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You don't need to keep the criminal talking to trace the call. 4 3 2 5 6 Time-consuming phone tracing stopped being a thing in the 1980s. With modern electronic switching systems, the phone company (and the police) can instantly know where a phone call is coming from. CRACKED.COM — CreditCards.com

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YOU CAN'T INTRODUCE SURPRISE EVIDENCE. EUIDENCE NO. 1 CASE TIME DATE Real trials have few to none plot twists, and that is by design. All evidence is gathered, and each side is made aware of what the other has, before the trial begins. There's no room for you to whip out unannounced evidence to everyone's shock and awe. CRACKED.COM — 7 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About The Legal System

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Straitjackets aren't used anymore. Physical restraints in mental hospitals (a highly regulated and monitored issue in the U.S.) include wrists and ankle bracelets that attach to the bed, but not straitjackets. Those have been phased out a long time ago. CRACKED.COM — Advocating for Better Mental Health

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Most crimes never get solved. Unsolved cases don't make for good television (let alone good reality), but that's what ended up happening with 54.5% of violent crimes and 82.4% of property crimes in 2018, according to the FBI. CRACKED.COM — Insider

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Schizophrenia and split personality are different things. Even though the word schizophrenia means split mind, it does not mean that your personality is divided. That is a different condition, named dissociative personality disorder. CRACKED.COM — Penn State University

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THE AUTOPILOT DOESN'T FLY THE PLANE BY ITSELF. Pilots don't just sit there while the autopilot does all the work for them. Automation does make flying easier, but in the end it's just another tool the crew uses. CRACKED.COM — National Geographic

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CRACKEDO Obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't about being a neat freak. You can get fixated on order and cleanliness, but also on other things, like not harming people, or even counting things. Whatever the case, OCD isn't a personality quirk it's a condition that causes a great deal of suffering and can stop you from living your life. — Chicago Health

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OBJECTIONS AREN'T JUST ABOUT LAWYERS YELLING. An objection is a very technical, structured procedure- one of the parts calmly tells the judge what they're concerned about (mentioning the legal basis for it), the other party gets to answer and the judge rules on it. Just yelling OBJECTION! won't get you anywhere. CRACKED.COM — 7 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About The Legal System

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YOU WILL NOT BE READ YOUR MIRANDA RIGHTS WHENEVER YOU'RE ARRESTED Police aren't required to read your rights to arrest you, only to interrogate you once you're in their custody. If you are caught red-handed, they don't need to ask if it was you who destroyed that mailbox with a baseball bat, SO they won't inform you that you have the right to remain silent. CRACKED.COM — Oakland Criminal Lawyer

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Mentally ill people aren't likely to be dangerous. Most people with serious mental illnesses aren't prone to violence- and when they are, other factors are often at play, like substance abuse. If anything, having a mental illness makes you more likely to be a victim of violence. CRACKED.COM — American Psychological Association, Treatment Advocacy Center

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CRACKED.COM YOU'RE NOT DOOMED IF YOU LOSE YOUR PLANE'S ENGINES. The engines' job is to give you forward thrust it's the wings that keep you in the air, and you still have those (hopefully). You may have as much as 20-30 minutes to find where to land. — Flight Deck Friend

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BARELY EVER DO LAWYERS SET FOOT IN A COURTROOM. The huge majority of an attorney's work is done out of court, and even when they are there, they spend more time on formalities than in front of a jury. And this goes for litigation lawyers- transactional lawyers (the kind that draw up contracts and the like) never see a courtroom. CRACKED.COM — University of Massachusetts

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AN INSANITY DEFENSE IS RARELY USED (LET ALONE SUCCESSFULLY). Since Even though a lot of fictional murderers try to get declared not guilty for reason of insanity, this defense is invoked in less than 1% of all real cases (and only one third of those are about murder). Additionally, only about one in four insanity pleas are successful. CRACKED.COM — Morris Psychological Group

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A GUILTY PLEA ISN'T ALWAYS AN ADMISSION OF GUILT EVEN LEGALLY). It's not uncommon for defendants to plead guilty in order to avoid a harsher sentence- but you can do this without actually admitting to any crime at all. Called an Alford plea, this is obviously contradictory and often frowned upon, but perfectly legal in most states. CRACKED.COM — Georgia Criminal Lawyer, HG.org

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Forensic lab results don't come back quickly. EVIDEN So you need this toxicology report ASAP? By the episode's second act, you say? Sorry chief, but lab results in real life can take weeks or even months, depending on a lot of factors. CRACKED.COM — Lab Tests Online

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CRACKED.COM FLYING A PLANE ISN'T LIKE RIDING A BIKE. You can't just hop into the cockpit after years on the ground flying a plane is a complex skill set, and you lose it if you don't use it. You'll need a refresher course before taking off again. — Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

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THE JURY CAN'T JUST DISREGARD THAT STATEMENT. After a jury has heard something that isn't admissible as evidence, you can't just ask them to pretend they didn't. If this happens, a mistrial is likely, as court officials aren't issued MIB-style neuralyzers to untaint juries. CRACKED.COM — 7 Things Hollywood Gets Wrong About The Legal System

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Psychopaths aren't delusional. Psychopaths don't think they're someone else, hear voices telling them to kill, or are disconnected from reality in any way. Hallucinations and loss of touch with reality are psychosis, not psychopathy. CRACKED.COM — Insider

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Cops aren't likely to commandeer your car. Even cops themselves aren't often sure of how legal it is to flash their badge and borrow your ride. Not that it matters, as most police officers go their entire careers without ever needing to pull this. CRACKED.COM — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times

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BEING A PILOT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN EXPERTLY FLY ANY PLANE. While the basics are always pretty much the same, each airplane has its own systems, features, and capabilities you have to learn. Switching planes requires more training than just switching cars. CRACKED.COM — Wayman, Traveltalk

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CRACKED.CO AN AILERON ROLL IS NOT A BARREL ROLL. In a proper barrel roll, the plane follows a spiral path as it rolls on itself (like it was skating on the inside of, well, a barrel). If it just rolls while going in a straight line, that's an aileron roll. — KnowledgeNuts

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